Doctors have long relied on painful procedures to diagnose and monitor certain blood cancers. One of these cancers is multiple myeloma, a disease that starts in the bone marrow. Bone marrow is the ...

A bone marrow biopsy is a medical procedure used to collect a small sample of bone marrow, which is the soft, spongy tissue inside your bones where blood cells are made. This test helps a physician ...

Bone marrow biopsies are among medicine's most painful and expensive tests. Cancer patients often undergo them. But soon, a blood test may reduce the need for this procedure. Several hundred thousand ...

Staff at King’s College London carried out research on the new test (King's College London/PA Wire) Patients with a rare and aggressive type of blood cancer could soon have their chances of survival ...

In multiple myeloma, abnormal plasma cells build up inside bone marrow -- the spongy tissue inside large bones where blood cells are produced. Over time, myeloma cells cause damage to bones, kidneys, ...

When Dr. E. Donnall Thomas first pioneered bone marrow transplantation in the 1960s and 1970s, his goal was to treat patients with advanced leukemia — at the time, a nearly universal death sentence.

The landmark procedure was carried out by a diverse team comprising consultant haematologists, pharmacists, laboratory ...

He became the first patient in Uganda to undergo a bone marrow transplant performed entirely on Ugandan soil by a local team ...